VIENNA

Vienna, above all for the memory of Sissi and her husband Emperor Franz Joseph. I accidentally saw an exhibition dedicated to Sissi at the palace in Monza which struck me a lot due to her unhappiness in life at court, her depression and the endless trips that continually took her around. She also lived in Madeira and Corfu and during yet another transfer to Geneva she was killed by an extremist while she was boarding a boat. In Vienna I stayed for almost three hours in the private apartments of Sissi and Franz Joseph, discovering that she had even invented and had built gymnastic instruments to keep fit and then she had long hair down to the floor and spent a whole day washing it once a week. week. The building that contains these apartments is the Hofburg which is very rich also for the other rooms where people ate, danced and then there is the Spanish riding school for the white horses of Lipiza which is located in Slovenia a few steps from the Italian border of Trieste. In Vienna I visited many museums of which the Austrian capital is rich: the Belvedere which was born as the summer residence of Prince Eugene of Savoy and today is an art gallery museum with beautiful paintings including the kiss by Klimt and paintings by Schiele and Kokoschka at the upper Belvedere , then there is an uphill lawn and white stairs and you arrive at the lower Belvedere which is a museum that hosts temporary exhibitions. The same painters are represented with their paintings at the Leopold Museum. Other attractions in Vienna are St. Stephen's Cathedral, the Capuchin Crypt with the tombs of the Austrian emperors, the Maria Hilfer Strasse shopping street, the Parliament Building, the Graben the downtown street next to the cathedral and outside the Prater the green park on the Danube with the giant observation wheel and of course the great Schoenbrunn palace where the court lived in the summer. There are typical Austrian cafes where you can eat Sacher Torte and many delicious pastries. For years, Vienna has won first place as the city with the best standard of living from many points of view <